11. BRIDGE STRIKE!
Julie Born Schwartz, Magalie Guerin, Magdalena Kita, Lina Lapelyte, Lauren Taylor, Vasilis Zarifopoulos
Snehta, Athens GR
22 to 25 March

Images / Text

at Snehta, I. Drosopoulou 47, Kypseli, Athens GR

A group exhibition organized by Syndicate.

Opens Wednesday 22 March, 8-11 PM
and continues 23 to 25 March, 4-8 PM

(article excerpt, 15 May)
...but there were no clear indicators in the days prior. As the morning broke around two dozen major thoroughfares were affected, turning several hundred thousand commuters into urban castaways. It is unknown what, if anything, ignited the spontaneous sentience, even as several major research centers have examined the question for the past week without pause...

(article excerpt, 7 June)
...amongst one group of individuals that meet virtually via a patchwork system of semi-functioning communications tools, there is a strong conviction that humanity’s creations are in the early stages of a complete rejection. This theory is only supported by the group’s eyewitness accounts of alleged – they call them ‘miraculous’ – incidents which they believe are connected to environmental shifts, brought on by recent changes in human brain chemistry. This position has no clear scientific basis. Still, one member constructed an intricate diagram – a kind of mathematical proof – described to this office in detail, over telephone, while gathering information for this report...

(article excerpt, 2 August)
...private workout routines done collectively, said to fortify the mind against chemical imbalance. They emphasize strenuous repetition and resistance training, and encourage full retreat – a strong rebuke to the official inter-governmental policy recommending local community engagement wherever possible. Uniform implementation of this social doctrine is a primary driver behind the Telenet system’s hasty assembly, and adherents to the fitness sect are actively disrupting work...

Magalie Guérin was born 1973 in Montreál, Canada, and lives in Chicago. She regularly works against a set of self-defined creative conditions in her painting, and her recent drawing series uses replication as a tactic for producing a visual language that resists a definitive style.

Her recent solo exhibitions include soon.tw, Montreal, Canada; Sector 2337, Chicago; Lyles & King, New York; The Suburban, Oak Park, US; and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago. She additionally participated in group exhibitions last year at Brand New Gallery, Milan; and the Elmhurst Art Museum, US; in addition to releasing her book NOTES ON, with Green Lantern Press, Chicago. Next month, Guérin will open a solo project at Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles.

Magdalena Kita was born 1983 in Debica, Poland and lives in Cologne. She illustrates vivid social constructions which mix drug culture, scientific experiments, literature, and modern Eastern European history, firmly grounded in her unique vision for radical feminism.

Last year, she had solo presentations at Prince of Wales, Munich; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; and Bruce Haines Mayfair, London. Other recent group projects include Priska Pasquer, Cologne; Egyptian Art and Antiques, Los Angeles; and the Museum Van Bommel Van Dam in Venlo, Netherlands, where she was awarded the 2016 Van Bommel Van Dam Prize. She is preparing to release Californication, published by Snoeck Verlag, Cologne, with a series of international events.

Lina Lapelyte was born 1984 in Lithuania, and lives in Vilnius and London. Trained as a classical musician, her work frequently uses sound and performance to highlight continued societal prejudices toward age, nostalgia, and gender identity.

She recently completed a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. Recent presentations of her opera collaboration ‘Have a Good Day!’ with Vaiva Grainytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė include Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon; the City Theatre, Talinn, Estonia; and the Borealis Festival, Caen, France; amongst many others. Following commission last year for CAC Vilnius, and FIAC in Paris, she will have a solo exhibition this autumn at Rupert in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Julie Born Schwartz was born 1981 in Chicago, US and lives in Copenhagen. Weaving together individual memories, she reframes historical incidents as blurred and unruly – products of uncanny passions and combined circumstances, rather than strict fact.

Her recent solo projects include exhibitions at Union Pacific, London and a Double Feature screening at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. Other group exhibitions include The Theatre Museum (Court Theatre) in Copenhagen; and the Royal Academy of the Arts, London. In 2016, she completed the Mahler/LeWitt Studio Residency in Spoleto, Italy, and will make a solo presentation at Syndicate, Cologne later this year.

Lauren Taylor was born 1992 in Nashville, US and lives in Chicago. Her recent work provokes fragile emotions through a set of contained vignettes which appear to be personal in sequence, but rather echo complex, widely-shared insecurities.

In addition to her solo exhibitions at Andrew Rafacz Gallery and Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago; she has participated in group exhibitions at Beautiful, Chicago; Bahamas Biennale, Detroit; and co-organized CULTURE at Roots & Culture Art Center, Chicago. She is preparing for a solo exhibition at Bahamas Biennale in Detroit later this year.

Vasilis Zarifopoulos was born 1983 in Greece, and lives in Athens. He searches for balance between the conflicts formulated by popular health in pharmaceuticals, diet, and exercise, offering his own identity as a testing ground.

He functions as the official company representative for Life Sport, based in Athens and Berlin, parallel to several other art-administrative roles. Last year he collaborated with Andreas Simopoulous for an exhibition at Life Sport, Athens; and recently made the solo presentation ‘Common Problems’ at Pan CAS, Heraklion, Greece.